Who were his co-recipients for the 2011 Nobel Prize?
John C. Mather and George F. Smoot
Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba
Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt
Riccardo Giacconi and X-ray astronomy
Answer
Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Adam Riess for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. Riess, Perlmutter, and Schmidt led teams of astronomers who used distant supernovae to measure the expansion rate of the universe, and found that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
Unraveling the Cosmos: The Adam Riess Astronomy Quiz
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